Elle Macpherson is dating a former doctor from Bath who was sacked on ethical grounds for falsely claiming that MMR jabs caused autism.

The model - who split from her billionaire husband Jeffrey Soffer in 2017 - was spotted kissing Andrew Wakefield, 61, last weekend at a food market in Miami.

Andrew, who grew up in Bath, relocated to America after being struck off as a doctor and banned from practising medicine in the UK in 2010.

The former King Edward’s School pupil helped spawned the anti-vaxxer movement when he published a report in The Lancet in 1998 that linked childhood vaccinations to autism and bowel disease - a report which was later retracted by the publication and branded “utterly false”.

Elle Macpherson pictured for the launch of a new beauty supplement called The Super Elixir at Selfridges Birmingham (Image: Publicity Picture)

Elle and Andrew are said to have started dating last year, after Andrew split up with his wife and shortly after Elle received $53million in cash and a $26million home during her divorce from billionaire Jeffrey Soffer.

Andrew has also found a dubious ally in Donald Trump - whom he met in 2016 - and the US president has also been sharing the damaging statements about vaccinations on his Twitter account.

Mr Wakefield told BBC News last year that: “Donald Trump gave us 50 minutes to discuss a very, very serious issue.

“He understands it, he gets it and he intends to do something about it.”